Remembering Gallery Guide Karen Pai

This past weekend, AGO volunteers came together to attend a private celebration of life for AGO volunteer Karen Pai (1945 – 2025) who passed away on vacation in Phuket, Thailand, earlier this year.

Karen joined our volunteer program in 1991, with nearly 35 years of service as an AGO volunteer, first joining as a historical interpreter in the Grange, and later, as a Gallery Guide.

Karen’s family has asked that we share the link to this memorial website, where you can learn more about her amazing life, full of art, creativity and culture – great loves – and where volunteers are invited to share memories and condolences: https://www.mykeeper.com/KarenPai

AGO volunteers, many Karen’s former shift mates, attend a celebration of life in her honour

Condolences have been shared on behalf of the Gallery and volunteer community, with Karen’s family.

So come, my friends, be not afraid. We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made In love we disappear ~ Leonard Cohen